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.TH "roarbaseclients" "1" "July 2008" "RoarAudio" "System Manager's Manual: roard"

.SH NAME

roarcat, roarmon \- RoarAudio sound server base clients

.SH SYNOPSIS

roarcat [OPTIONS]... [FILE]

roarmon [OPTIONS]...

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This are some basic clients for RoarAuido. Some more complex are listen in the \fbSEE ALSO\fR block.
For controlling \fBroard\fR take a look at \fBroarctl\fR(1). For a simple Ogg Vorbis player
take a look at \fBroarvorbis\fR(1) (ogg123 supportes RoarAudio via libao plugin).

.TP
\fBroarcat\fR
Sends raw PCM audio data from a file or stdin (pipe) to the sound server.

.TP
\fBroarmon\fR
Gets a copy of the audio data the server sends to the soundcard. This is useful for streaming
to a server like \fBicecast2\fR(1).

.SH "GENERAL OPTIONS"
\fBNOTE: This list is incomplete!\fR
In addition to this list all three programs provide compatible
options for esdcat, esdmon. You can just replace the "esd"
in the name with "roar" or use symlinks. This options are for compatibly
only and should not used in new programs.

.TP
\fB--help\fR
Print some help text.

.SH "AUDIO OPTIONS"
.TP
\fB--rate RATE\fR, \fB-R RATE\fR
Set server sample rate.

.TP
\fB--bits BITS\fR, \fB-B BITS\fR
Set server bits.

.TP
\fB--chans CHANNELS\fR, \fB-C CHANNELS\fR
Set server channels.

.SH "NETWORK OPTIONS"
.TP
\fB--server SERVER\fR
The server to connect to.

.SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
Bellow only the basic environment varibales are listend.
For a complete list see \fBlibroar\fR(7).

.TP
\fBHOME\fR
The users home directory.

.TP
\fBROAR_SERVER\fR
The address of the listening server. This may be in form of host:port for TCP/IP connections
and /path/to/sock for UNIX Domain Sockets or any other supported format. See \fBroartips\fR(7)
for a full list.
This is the same as the \fB--server\fR option.

.SH "BUGS"
There are a lot of bugs...

.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBroarctl\fR(1),
\fBroarvorbis\fR(1),
\fBroarfish\fR(1),
\fBroartestclients\fR(1),
\fBroartips\fR(7),
\fBlibroar\fR(7),
\fBRoarAudio\fR(7).

.SH "HISTORY"

For history information see \fBRoarAudio\fR(7).

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